A totally genius analysis of the week’s political news from two certified brains. Ready to resist, progressive AF. Podcast posted weekly since 2012.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. For once the House passed bill moderately more tolerable than the Senate version
2. Senate tax bill FINALLY does something for the private jet owning community
3. Despite new entries, Roy Moore holds on to number one spot as grossest harasser in the Senate pool
4. Kirsten Gillibrand literally thinks she’s God right now. Let’s hope she’s right.
5. Alabama: Playing out just as predicted.
6. Trump nominates amateur ghost hunter to protect constitution because...yeah, we don’t know.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of circling helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
Sunday Nov 12, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. You know shit is bad when local election results in Virginia can make California progressives this happy
2. Roy Moore is a pederast. Because, of course.
3. Trump and Putin don’t know what they know about what they don’t know about Russia’s election hacking
4. McConnell to America: I can’t promise this tax cut is for you
5. Shocking update: there are issues with our background check system for guns
6. Carla Nordstrom joins us on the podcast to report on upstate New York's electoral scene
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
Sunday Nov 05, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. Elections!
2. Donna Brazile’s explosive new book details shocking revelations literally every Sanders supporter knew from just being alive
3. GOP tax bill proves that the only group more important to the GOP than the top 1% is the unborn
4. Climate change is real! Donald Trump says so
5. New attacks between Bush and Trump in the ongoing race to be 2nd worst president
6. Rand Paul thwarts first real Bowling Green Massacre with his ribs
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Puerto Rico - they still have no power
2. Indictments are coming down in the Russia probe, so a nuclear war is probably starting this week
3. The GOP will champion an unbalanced budget if and only if their desperate need for a win overrides their deepest help principles. So...anytime.
4. Too many GOP lawmakers are scared of the political process right now
5. Sexual harassment: Everybody’s doing it. Literally...it’s too many people.
6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents
*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump is furious that his gifted roll of paper towels wasn’t enough to clean up all of Puerto Rico
2. You can now thank Trump directly for your rising healthcare costs. Thanks, Agent Orange!
3. Trump’s Iran policy mostly dictated by a fictitious palate of cash.
4. The whole world is just all sexual predators
5. Steve Bannon promotes Shakespearean murder platform at Value Voters Summit. Adorable thinks the reference will land.
6. Mike Pence hates America. We have proof.
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*If you'd like to contribute to the PR recovery efforts, here are two reputable places to donate, care of this week's wonderful guest, Esteban Gast:Maria: Puerto Rico Real-Time Recovery Fund - https://www.generosity.com/emergencies-fundraising/maria-puerto-rico-real-time-recovery-fund Friends of Puerto Rico - http://www.friendsofpuertorico.org *Follow Esteban on Twitter at @realestebangast or find him online at www.estebangast.com!* |
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Coastal liberal elites everywhere furious about this week’s education in horrifying and bizarre gun accessories
2. Trump, clearly studying the elements of story, now focused heavily on the art of tragic foreshadowing
3. Donald Trump: grabber of pussies and pussy healthcare
4. West Hollywood mayor John Heilman stops by because WeHo is just that kind of friendly and adorable small town
5. Old timey sounding geopolitical battles are playing out in real time in Catalonia
6. Donald Trump has the best feuds. There is nobody with better feuds than Donald Trump.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of barking dogs and sirens who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
Sunday Sep 10, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. The weather endtimes cause an excess of stupid newsmen in raincoats standing in 150 mph winds.
2. Has anybody ever wondered if Donald Trump is just the last remaining Dixiecrat?
3. Trump finally hails first legislative victory and great press, and it’s all thanks to Chuck and Nancy
4. Trump was, for the first time, afraid to see the court in court when it came to DACA
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5. Betsy DeVos is hanging with the sexual predator set and loving it
6. Hillary Clinton: A person that is still here. Talking.
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Mid-Week Special!
When we promise you we’ll post something, you can count on us to post it…weeks later! That’s right, we’re putting up a supercut of the audio from our wild weekend at Politicon! Check out some clips from the awesome panels and get our thoughts on Ann Coulter’s sanity, our unending love for the queen of 2017 Symone Sanders, and the bathroom habits of Trump supporters. It’s all here, so enjoy!
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
Sunday Jul 30, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
We're flying rundown-free because we snuck this recording in after a packed weekend at Politicon, but tune in for our reactions to the comic-con for wonks, plus of course the healthcare vote, Priebus exit, Scaramucci living up to his operatic name, Trump's VERY on-brand boy scouts speech, and more!
Also look out later in this week for a SUPERCUT (woooooo!) of our time at this year's Politicon!
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!
Monday Jul 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
In Which We Discuss:
1. Trump either wants the house healthcare bill, or the senate bill, or single-payer, or a less mean bill, or a very mean bill, or a total repeal, or a tax bill, or a giraffe. (The Senate agrees.)
2. Barriers shattered: Democrats coming out of the closet as...supporting Medicare for all!
3. It’s an Our Revolution revolution
4. For anybody who wondered if giving Trump a SCOTUS victory would matter: Yes, Gorsuch is already a problem.
5. Donald Trump remembers women are still a thing and vows to defeat them and the leftist media that promotes them
Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of helecopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL! Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!